It’s time for the DISDads Podcast’s annual look back at the news of the year just passed at Disney Parks & Resorts. The panel shares its take on seasonal pricing, value-added experiences, new attractions, new dining options, and much, much more!

Episode 458 is the return of the DISDads Podcast’s annual preview of the next year’s Disney movie releases. We’ve broken the preview in half, with Part 2 coming next week. In this week’s episode, the panel previews Disney’s scheduled releases for 2017 through June.

March 17, 2017 – Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Studios)

April 21, 2017 – Born in China (Disneynature)

May 5, 2017 – Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Studios)

May 26, 2017 – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Walt Disney Studios)

June 16, 2017 – Cars 3 (Disney•Pixar)

Which of these films from the first half of 2017 are you most looking forward to? Have the new trailers for the Pirates and Cars movies made you more (or less) likely to check them out? Tell us about it! Leave a comment here on the blog; Email us at podcast@disdads.com; tweet us at DisDadsPodcast on Twitter; and check out our DISDads Podcast Facebook page.

If you enjoyed the podcast, we’d also really appreciate it if you took a moment to leave us a review on iTunes (If you didn’t enjoy the show, feel free to ignore that last link).

We take a break from our “If I Ran” series to preview the impending release of what many believe to be the linchpin of Phase III of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Doctor Strange will officially be released in the United States on November 4, 2016. Without getting particularly spoilery (caution: we do discuss some plot issues that have been widely discussed publicly, and talk about some casting issues in some depth), the panel’s goal is to provide a bit of background and context for one of the lesser-known MCU heroes, heading into the movie’s premiere.

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Next week, we’ll be returning to the “If I Ran” series, with a LIVE show over at DisTalk Radio at 8:00 p.m. Central Time. The panel will give their answers to what they would do if they ran Disneyland Resort – but we’d love to have your feedback live too! You can join us in the chatroom at DisTalk Radio (registration required) and we’ll even offer an opportunity to join the Skype conversation during the show.

This week we continue our Oddsmakers discussion, picking up with goings-on around the Walt Disney World resort, and continuing to other Disney Parks, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the Disney company itself. This also marks our 400th episode release, and we also recently crossed a major listenership threshold, as we’ve now had over 100,000 unique downloads of a DISDads show. I know that’s small potatoes for some podcasters, but it’s pretty darned exciting for us – thank you for listening!

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